From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] gnu: nss-certs: Stop inheriting from nss package. Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 21:34:18 +0200 Message-ID: <877fci211h.fsf@elephly.net> References: <20160718115941.17707-1-ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> <20160718115941.17707-2-ricardo.wurmus@mdc-berlin.de> <20160718163927.GA2347@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58248) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPEJF-0005su-Di for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:34:35 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPEJC-0001VT-Ah for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:34:33 -0400 Received: from sender163-mail.zoho.com ([74.201.84.163]:24507) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bPEJC-0001UE-2h for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:34:30 -0400 In-reply-to: <20160718163927.GA2347@jasmine> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Leo Famulari writes: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 01:59:39PM +0200, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >> * gnu/packages/certs.scm (nss-certs): Stop inheriting from nss package. > > Why do we want to do this? > > It appears to me that the resulting package would be the same. Is there > a plan to let the versions diverge in the future? We have a module cycle when using the certs module from the java module. By separating “nss-certs” from the “nss” package we break the cycle. Ludo explained it well in this email: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-06/msg00648.html >> +;;; Copyright © 2016 Ludovic Courtès > > Is this intentional? Yes. This patch is almost exactly the same as what Ludo proposed in the email above. I cannot take credit for this. ~~ Ricardo